Coupatezia elevata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoupateziaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Coupatezia elevata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
11 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Coupatezia elevata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coupatezia elevata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Coupatezia elevata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Ixobatis mucronata8 sites
- Ginglymostoma botmaense7 sites
- Plicatoscyllium youssoufiaense7 sites
- Rhombodus microdon7 sites
- Ginglymostoma pectinatum6 sites
- Coupatezia fallax4 sites
- Dasyrhombodus bondoni4 sites
- Ganntouria variabilis4 sites
- Pteroscyllium lamranii4 sites
- Rhombodus binkhorsti4 sites
- Bothremydidae3 sites
- Chelonioidea3 sites
- Coupatezia reniformis3 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana3 sites
- Ctenopristis nougareti3 sites
- Elasmosauridae3 sites
- Enchodus3 sites
- Eremiasaurus heterodontus3 sites
- Ganopristis leptodon3 sites
- Globidens phosphaticus3 sites
- Halisaurus arambourgi3 sites
- Pachyvaranus crassispondylus3 sites
- Palaeogaleus dahmanii3 sites
- Plicatoscyllium gharbii3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Coupatezia elevata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Les Orectolobiformes, Carcharhiniformes et Myliobatiformes (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc (Maastrichtien-Lutétien basal). Systématique, biostratigraphie, évolution et dynamique des faunes8
- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology3
Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Coupatezia elevata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Coupatezia elevata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coupatezia elevata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCoupatezia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noubhani and Cappetta 1997